Useful Tool for After Effects Automation Released
January 10, 2005
Verona, WI - Profound Effects has released Useful Assistants (UA), an automation tool for Adobe After Effects.
UA streamlines workflow within After Effects 5.5, 6.0, and 6.5. by automating tedious tasks and by adding convenience features absent in After Effects itself. More than 100 assistants are shipped, and some 30 additional assitants are available for free download from the Useful Assistants community site.
For example, UA includes assistants that can:
Save work to an incrementing file name automatically.
Automate temporal extension of layers and nested compositions
Copy and paste groups of expressions at a time.
Place markers wherever cuts or gaps are detected, automatically.
Open, close, join, and reverse the direction of masks.
Create keyframes based on image luminance or channel information.
Sequence and fade layers in powerful ways.
Paste, move, and snap layers in different ways.
Make contact sheets from a composition, automatically.
Demonstrations of the assistants that come with UA are available online (Aim Spot Light Using Camera pictured); available for Windows or Mac systems, the package is available now at $195.
For more information, visit
www.profoundeffects.com
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